198 THE GOODSIR FELLOWSHIP. 



Fife, gave brief notices of Goodsir's life, work, and 

 character. 



The institution of fellowships in the University of 

 Edinburgh, so long advocated by Professor Goodsir, 

 seems to have been well understood by his surviving 

 friends, as on the first occasion of their meeting to do 

 justice to his memory, they came to the decision of 

 founding a fellowship in his honour. The writer hopes 

 that this idea, so consonant with his departed friend's 

 wishes, will be carried out in a manner worthy of the 

 University and the man to be memorialised. 



A pure thought, a simple mindedness, and unob- 

 trusive religious feeling; guided John Goodsir in both 

 his private and public relations. Nothing mean nor 

 sordid, nothing small nor covetous ruled him who cared 

 but little for the allurements of the hour or the glitter 

 of popularity. Cicero's words pro M. G cello were fairly 

 applicable to Goodsir — " Quern nonquies, nonremissio, 

 non cequalium studia,non ludi,non conviviadelectarent ; 

 nihil in vita expetendum putaret, nisi quod esset cum 

 laude et cum dignitate conjunctum." 



As a professor and cultivator of science, Goodsir 

 kept Haller, John Hunter, and the Meckels in view as 

 types of men whose discoveries and teaching he should 

 hold up as examples to his own high calling — men 

 who tried to grasp the science in all its totality. It 

 was on this ground that he admired Johannes Mtiller 

 Ketzius, Hyrtl, Vrolik, and others who followed the 

 footsteps of the great anatomists and physiologists of 

 the last century. Of the school of the past Goodsir 

 himself resembled Monro primus in preparing and 



